Quotes from Doing It

“The thing that truly amazes me about myself is that I’m actually more scared of being embarrassed than anything else.”
― Melvin Burgess, quote from Doing It

“Deborah felt his erection against her stomach and smiled up at him. She grabbed hold of his bum and moved him gently from side to side so that it rocked against her, twitching like Frankenstein's monster in an electric storm.”
― Melvin Burgess, quote from Doing It

“If it’s a choice between being shat on and pissed on and used and being a bastard, I’ll choose being a bastard any time.”
― Melvin Burgess, quote from Doing It

“Sex is . . . well, it’s so rude, isn’t it? You wouldn’t think girls would like sex. You’d think it’s too rude for them. Doing sex with a girl, it’s a bit like putting a frog down their backs or scaring them with dead mice or throwing worms at them. They’re such sensible, grown-up sorts of people. And yet apparently even the nice ones like you sticking the rudest thing you have on your whole body up the exact, rudest part of their body that they have. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me!”
― Melvin Burgess, quote from Doing It

“The fact is, I can’t put together the sort of feelings that I get when I’m having a dirty big wank together with the kind of feelings I get when I’m having a nice friendly chat with someone. It just doesn’t work.”
― Melvin Burgess, quote from Doing It

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“This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're
both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any
questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.”
― John Marsden, quote from The Other Side of Dawn

“Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it is with me. And I was thinking, would he know me when I came to him? Yes! Sitting in his hall, he will see me sail into the bay, and he will run down to meet me on the shore; he will wade into the sea and pull my boat onto the sand and welcome me as his wayfaring brother. Why will he do this? Because he too has suffered, and he knows, Aeddan, he knows.” Beaming, Gunnar concluded, “Is that not good news?”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Byzantium

“في نمط الكينونة, لا يكون الإيمان -في المقام الأول- مجرد إيمان بأفكار معينة وإن كان من الممكن أن يتضمن هذا أيضا, إنما الإيمان- في المقام الأول- هو توجه داخلي, موقف, ولعله من الأنسب أن يقال إن شخصا ما في حالة الإيمان, على أن يقال إنه يملك إيمانا,يمكن ان الشخص في حالة ايمان بنفسه وبالأخرين, والمتدين في حالة إيمان بالله, والله في العهد القديم هو بالدرجة الأولى نفي للأصنام للآلهة التي كان الناس يملكونها.
وإيماني بنفسي وبالأخرين وبالجنس البشري يتضمن ايضا نوعا من اليقين, ولكنه يقين اساسه تجربتي الذاتية, وليس خضوعي لسلطة تملي عليّ نمطا معينا من الإيمان. إنه يقين الحقيقة التي قد يستحيل إثباتها بأدلة عقلية ملزمة, ومع ذلك فهي الحقيقة التي أنا على يقين منها لأن ثمة أدلة عليها من تجربتي الذاتية.
إذا كنت على يقين من أن شخصا ما تتوافر فيه صفات التكامل الإنساني فإنني لا استطيع أن اقيم الدليل على أن تكامله يمكن ان يستمر لآخر يوم في حياته.
وحتى لو حدث, فليس ثمة ما يستبعد احتمال اختلال التكامل لو امتدت الحياة به, إن يقين يقوم على معرفتي بالشخص الآخر, وعلى تجربتي الشخصية في الحب والتكامل الإنساني, وهذا النوع من المعرفة لا استطيع التوصل اليه إلا بقدر ما استطيع تنحية ذاتيتي ورؤية شخصية الإنسان الآخر كما هي, واستجلاء بناء قواه الداخلية, رؤيته في تفرده كما في انسانيته الشاملة في الوقت نفسه.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche

“As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Oracle Night

“The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer.”
― Kevin Powers, quote from The Yellow Birds

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